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The Wonder of Small Things
- Poems of Peace and Renewal
- Narrated by: James Crews
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness presents a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life.
James Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness, presents an all-new collection of highly accessible poems on the theme of celebrating moments of wonder and peace in everyday life. As Crews writes in the introduction: "[A] deep love for the world is present in every one of the poems gathered in this book. Wonder calls us back to the curiosity we are each born with, and it makes us want to move closer to what sparks our attention. Wonder opens our senses and helps us stay in touch with a humbling sense of our own human smallness in the face of unexpected beauty and the delicious mysteries of life on this planet."
The anthology features a foreword by Nikita Gill and a carefully curated selection of poems from a diverse range of authors, including Native American poets Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Kimberly Blaeser, and Joseph Bruchac, and BIPOC writers Ross Gay, Julia Alvarez, and Toi Derricotte. Crews features new poems from popular writers such as Natalie Goldberg, Mark Nepo, Ted Kooser, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirshfield, and Jacqueline Suskin, along with selections from emerging poets. Listeners are guided in exploring the meaning and essence of the poems through a series of reflective pauses scattered throughout and reading group questions in the back. This anthology offers the perfect intersection for the growing number of people interested in mindful living and bringing poetry into their everyday lives.
Critic Reviews
“Reading these hand-selected poems of wonder and awe is like being handed a bowl of ripe, sweet fruits—so enjoyable, so surprisingly different, so deeply nourishing.”—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of All the Honey and Hush